"Our true passions are selfish."
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"Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all."
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"People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions."
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"Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion."
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"To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored."
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"Far less envy in America than in France."
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"I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly."
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"The only unhappiness is a life of boredom."
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"There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness."
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"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."
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"It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation."
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"Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action."
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"A novel is a mirror carried along a main road."
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"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."
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"I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase."
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"One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion."
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"The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief."
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"When you want to court a woman, court her sister first"
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"It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts."
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"It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover."
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